“Aiden—”
He cut Wren off before he could ask anything else. “Or maybe I just like fucking with my brothers. Either way—” Aiden flicked his eyes at me. “Welcome to the team.”
He turned to go, but Wren wasn’t finished. “What are they going to do to you? They said there was a price. I don’t want you to get hurt because of us.”
That was kinder than what I’d been thinking earlier.
“Knowing Helix and Celio? Something I’ll despise.” Aiden shrugged, and the brilliant white wings spilled from his back. I realized they weren’t just white—they were the same prismatic shift as his eyes. “I forbade them from having a human once upon a time… from loving and hating and keeping him. They’ve never really forgiven me for it. I guess we’ll see what they come up with.”
Aiden’s wings rustled and then he was gone—into the air, the sky, before Wren could draw breath to ask another question.
That left us there, alone in the clearing.
Alone and together.
Wren turned to me, and his expression went soft, nearly weak.
“I thought I’d lost you… Fuck. Theo. I felt you die.” Straight to the accusations, but his lips still pressed to mine in a trembling kiss that lit me up from the inside. My tongue delved forward, dipping between that pout to lick apologies against the roof of his mouth. When he finally pulled back, his voice was breathy. “I love you, you fucking asshole. You can’t do that to me.”
“I won’t. I promise. I just…” I leaned in again, pressing my forehead to his. “It would have been worth it. And I…” I stepped back from him, glancing down at my hands again, shifting my shoulders to feel the wings at my back. “I’m… different.”
“I don’t care.” He cut me off before I could question it. “I don’t care if you’re a human or an Enmity, as long as you’re here. As long as you’re mine.” Something on Wren’s face shifted then, and the happiness that slid across his features was so bright it was nearly blinding.
“What?”
“Theo. You’re not human anymore.” He cupped my jawline, sliding his thumb along my lower lip and pressing between to feel teeth gone sharp.
“I… I know. But I’m still me, I—”
“You’re nothuman, Theo. Enmity don’t age. They don’tdieunless they’re killed.” Wren’s smile was beautiful. “Forever.”
Oh.
Oh.
“Forever,” I echoed, almost numbly. I’d never even thought about it, the fact that I would age, that I would die. I’d never hadspaceto think about it, but Wren obviously had… and he’d still been willing to tear his wings out for me. He stillwantedto be with me. I felt it then—my lips lifting, the smile I couldn’t resist. “We have forever.”
Wren kissed me again, hot and hard, and his arms sliding around me held me so tight it felt like I might fall straight into him.
I wanted to. I wanted to fall into him for the rest of our lives.
For the rest offorever.
Chapter 33
Wren
This time, when Theoand I took to the sky, I didn’t have to hold him.
This time, our fingers entwined and we flew together.
We had forever, and we had each other.
I didn’t care what Aiden said.
Love’s Ace could wait.
